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Friday Bread Basket 12/9/22

Deconstructed banana bread ed

Andrew Janjigian

Dec 9, 2022

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I am taking the last two weeks of December off, so next Friday’s Bread Basket will be the last one of 2022. Because of that, and because it’s been a few weeks since I last sent out a Bread Basket, I have a backlog of links to share before the clock runs out, so I am going to do today’s basket as a lightning round.

For Epicurious, my friend Andrea Aliseda wrote a beautiful piece on champurrado, a chocolate-containing version of atole, the Mexican beverage of masa or corn flour and water.

The baguette has been added to UNESCO’s list of World Intangible Cultural Heritage items.

My friend Dayna Evans’ Eater swan song is an epic ode to the panettone, for which she travelled all the way to Sicily to report.

My friend Julia Skinner wrote a great story for Atlanta Magazine about what it is like to write about food when you have taste-related synesthesia.

ICYWW which banana bread the father of deconstruction theory prefers, here you go.

(Shameless plug!) For Thrillist, Emily Saladino asked me and a few butter luminaries our thoughts on whether or when it is worth spending extra money for fancy butter for baking.

Nicholas Gill wrote an important story for his New Worlder Substack on how to be sure you are buying quinoa that supports farmers from the grain’s native territory, the Andes.

New Worlder

How to Buy Quinoa That Supports Andean Farmers

Around 2005, quinoa went global and the entire market around it changed. It started being marketed as a health food at a m moment when being kosher, gluten-free and a complete plant protein were highly sought after attributes. Supply could not keep up with demand, so, naturally, prices jumped and much m…

a year ago · 5 likes · Nicholas Gill

Aishwarya Jagani wrote a piece for Smart Mouth on rose cookies, or rosetbakkelser, a Scandinavian holiday treat that is a popular food as far away as Kerala, India.

Smart Mouth

The Christmas Cookie That’ll Start a Fight

I have launched a restaurant review site called How to Eat L.A. Please check it out! -Katherine If you haven’t become a paid Smart Mouth subscriber yet, please consider it. The money goes straight to paying freelancers a good rate - much better than most publications. And if not that, click on the heart icon above so I know you’re reading…

a year ago · 3 likes · Katherine Spiers

100% would eat:

Julien Hoez @JulienHoez

Why do British people seem have an overriding need to destroy all that is holy in this world. A fish finger and cheese croissant! Mais pourquoi ?! Pourquoi avez-vous consciemment choisi de créer cette monstruosité culinaire ?!?

Culinary barbarism as a perfected artform

I need one of these:

The Museum of Curiosities @CuriosMuseum

Victorian Era Radiator with Bread warmer.

That’s it for this week’s bread basket. I hope you all have a peaceful weekend, see you on Monday.

—Andrew

8 Comments

Lisa

Dec 9, 2022Liked by Andrew Janjigian

Thanks for the enjoyable read Andrew. Panettone is so popular in my Hispanic neighborhood- I never knew its origins. Also love that old bread warmer, might just work on my own steam radiators! 😃

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Nic Miller

Writes Tales From Topographic Kitchens

Dec 9, 2022·edited Dec 9, 2022Liked by Andrew Janjigian

Very much here for banana bread. And Julia's piece was great. I have lexical olfactory synaesthesia and until relatively recently, thought this was common to everyone.

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